{"id":306348,"date":"2026-10-14T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306348\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:20:11","slug":"berks-moves-from-drought-warning-to-watch-state-says-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306348\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks moves from drought warning to watch, state says | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERKS CO., Pa. – The drought appears to be easing.<\/p>\n

The state Department of Environmental Protection downgraded Berks from a “warning” to a “drought watch.”<\/p>\n

The Reading Area Water Authority says a voluntary five- to ten-percent reduction in water use is still in effect for Reading and North Heidelberg System customers.<\/p>\n

That’s down from 15 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS CO., Pa. – The drought appears to be easing. The state Department of Environmental Protection downgraded Berks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,4771,5627,31843,125676,24450,128,130,129,31623,2856,2221],"class_list":["post-306348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-department-of-environmental-protection","tag-drought","tag-drought-watch","tag-north-heidelberg-system","tag-reading-area-water-authority","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-water-conservation","tag-water-supply","tag-water-use-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}